Written as a theme music for Monthly DAICHI Music Webzine, the tune inspired Tango Kuroneko's friend musicians to create new music for the future generations.

Tango Kuroneko visited Iran for the first time on occasion of Idaki Shin's "Dialogue Among Civilizations" concert at Persepolis in October, 2004. He wrote music inspired by the trip at that time and movie was made in collaboration with Masahiro Takuma's pictures and Izumo Yorimichi's poems. In Part I, he expresses the joy, astonishment and impression he felt in Isfahan and Shiraz.

In the first part of Part II, Tango Kuroneko expresses the travel in the desert land from Shiraz to Yazd. Then the marvelous heritage of Naqshe Rostam and Persepolis. And finally he thanks the Iranian people he met in "Hoda Hafez." or "May the God Be with You" in Persian.

In spring 2005, Tango Kuroneko visited Yoshino Baigo, an eastern suburb of Tokyo famous for a lot of beautiful plum trees. He wrote this tune inspired by the trip at that time and Sugawara-no Michizane's famous death song:

When the east wind blows,
Plum blossoms, remember please
To Bring spring, let flow
Your fragrance in the sweet breeze
Though I might be 'way from home.

"Kokiriko Song" is a famous folk song in Toyama, in the middle part of Japan in the face of Japan Sea. Though this song was sung in the mountainous region, Tango Kuroneko blended the ocean waves with this song, remembering the people coming across the sea from Korean Peninsula a long time ago.

The music begins with Japanese "gagaku" court music, then the West Asian feeling is added and finally European musical instruments join and the music gets so hot! As the music can be mixed irrespective of national and ethnic boundaries, may all the world live as one in peace.

The pilgrimage routes to Kumano shrines in the central Japan were registered as World Heritage in 2004. HIRO visited there in 2003 and was inspired to write this tune.

"As I walked the path in the mountain, I felt like seeing people in the old days, men and women, young and old, walking along with me. Many people, generations by generations, made pilgrimage in quest of peace and happiness, the truth of life." (HIRO)

"When I walked along the shores near Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 2003, a fresh breeze from the Indian Ocean caressed me and swept away all the dust and dirt within me. I wrote this tune expressing the refreshing and happy feeling I had then on a sweet bossa nova. (Well it was as if the breeze said to me, "It's alright. Just the way you are!")" (HIRO)

"Hidamari" is a Japanese word for a "suntrap," or a sunny place. HIRO's piano reminds me of a happy moments of lazy afternoon, spending time seeing the clouds slowly drifting away. (Editor)

"When I visited Persepolis in 2004, I wondered: "What in the world happened here?" "Why did this magnificent and splendid palaces have to perish?" "Is it a human nature to repeat creation and destruction?" I express the deep emptiness and sorrow I felt then on a minor bossa nova." (HIRO)